In Love Again - The Music of Richard Rodgers

Stacey Kent | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (January 28, 2003)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Label: Candid Records
• ASIN: B00005V45W
• In-Print Editions: MP3 Download
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (19 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #44,666 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Five aren't enough: Give me six!, April 15, 2003

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Steve Emerine (Tucson, AZ United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: In Love Again - The Music of Richard Rodgers (Audio CD)

Stacey Kent's fifth CD is her best. Backed once more by husband Jim Tomlinson on tenor sax and flute, she has found yet another way to pay tribute to Richard Rodgers and his music. Her new arrangements of Rodgers'tunes are worth adding to your collection.While some compare her voice to that of Joanie Sommers, I think it's more reminiscent of the crisp and kittenish lyrics sung by young Susannah McCorkle.Don't miss Kent and Tomlinson if you have a chance to see them. They make far too few appearances in the U.S., but I was fortunate enough to see them wow a Tucson Jazz Society audience in 2002. My mistake was not buying the British version of this CD from her then. The year-long wait for it to hit regular U.S. marketing channels was agonizing, and I'm already yearning for Stacey's sixth album.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding tribute to Richard Rodgers, December 27, 2003

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Peter Durward Harris "Pete the music fan" (Leicester England) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: In Love Again - The Music of Richard Rodgers (Audio CD)

American-born but British-based Stacey does it again with this mellow but classy collection of songs composed by Richard Rodgers in collaboration with either with Lorenz Hart or Oscar Hammerstein. The songs are a mix of the famous and the obscure.

Stacey selected two songs each from South Pacific (I'm gonna wash that man right outta my hair, Bali Ha'i) and A Connecticut Yankee (Thou swell, My heart stood still). Other shows represented here, but just by one song each, are The king and I (Shall we dance), Pal Joey (Bewitched bothered and bewildered), Higher and higher (It never entered my mind), State fair (It might as well be Spring), Jupiter (Nobody's heart belongs to me), The boys from Syracuse (This can't be love), Mississippi (It's easy to remember) and The Garrick Gaities (Manhattan).

As a fan of the Great American Songbook, I have heard some of these songs in many different versions, but Stacey always does justice to the songs while interpreting them in her own way.

Stacey is one of the biggest names in British jazz and this album clearly shows why. If you enjoy modern recordings of the Great American Songbook, you'll love Stacey's music.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The best ..., March 16, 2003

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This review is from: In Love Again - The Music of Richard Rodgers (Audio CD)

Stacey Kent is the best. There are no better singers of the great American popular songs, and her CDs consistently include exceptionally fine supporting musicians. (Note: this is the US release. The British release of the same CD last year has a different, and surprisingly unflattering, picture of her on the cover.)